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    Macintosh (Basilisk II) 8-bit Color

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    • edmaul69E
      edmaul69 @mediamogul
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      @mediamogul i will try another virtual hard drive i made.

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      • edmaul69E
        edmaul69 @mediamogul
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        @mediamogul so i did a fresh install of 8.1 (no update this time) uninstalled and reinstalled basilisk. No luck. Crashes everytime i switch to 256 colors. Even if i go directly into the monitor settings on os 8.1. But hey! If it means anything i managed to get the whole pi stuck in 640x480 256 so i could keep going back into os8.1 without rebooting. Lol

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        • mediamogulM
          mediamogul Global Moderator @edmaul69
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          @edmaul69

          At this point, the only difference between our two setups is the amount of allotted RAM. Is it possible that's the issue?

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          • edmaul69E
            edmaul69 @mediamogul
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            @mediamogul nope i just tried that. A possible fyi with 132 megs of ram after i changed my colors to millions (32bit) after restarting it would load os8.1 but the desktop icons never came up and my cursor was stuck on the watch not allowing me to do anything. Once i switched it to 256megs of ram (268435456) it booted right up.

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            • edmaul69E
              edmaul69 @mediamogul
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              @mediamogul also can you post the contents of your emulators file? Also are you just using a dummy start.txt file or did you modify it?

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              • mediamogulM
                mediamogul Global Moderator @edmaul69
                last edited by mediamogul

                @edmaul69

                emulators.cfg:

                basilisk = "/opt/retropie/emulators/basilisk/bin/BasiliskII --rom /home/pi/RetroPie/roms/macintosh/mac.rom --disk /home/pi/RetroPie/roms/macintosh/disk.img --extfs /home/pi/RetroPie/roms/macintosh --config /opt/retropie/configs/macintosh/basiliskii.cfg"
                default="basilisk"
                
                

                start.txt is just the standard dummy.

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                • edmaul69E
                  edmaul69 @mediamogul
                  last edited by

                  @mediamogul yup. Just the standard info.

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                  • edmaul69E
                    edmaul69 @mediamogul
                    last edited by

                    @mediamogul so in your roms folder do you have anything besides your system folder, your rom and your img? Not sure if there was anything else you added there that it needed. Of course im sure you dont know of any else you had installed (as possibly mentioned by @Meneer-Jansen )

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                    • mediamogulM
                      mediamogul Global Moderator @edmaul69
                      last edited by

                      @edmaul69

                      Nothing else has been added. Will Basilisk launch for you without changing the color depth?

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                      • BuZzB
                        BuZz administrators
                        last edited by

                        Check your dispmanx settings for that emulator.

                        To help us help you - please make sure you read the sticky topics before posting - https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first

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                        • edmaul69E
                          edmaul69 @BuZz
                          last edited by

                          @BuZz when i turn dispmanx on just now all i get is a black screen. Cannot exit blindly either

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                          • edmaul69E
                            edmaul69 @BuZz
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                            @BuZz i also havent updated linux kernel since either 4.0 or 4.01 because i use the northwest controller fix and was too lazy to do that again if that matters any.

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                            • BuZzB
                              BuZz administrators @edmaul69
                              last edited by

                              @edmaul69 it might help - at least to match your set-up against @mediamogul's

                              To help us help you - please make sure you read the sticky topics before posting - https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first

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                              • edmaul69E
                                edmaul69 @BuZz
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                                @BuZz i will do it then.

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                                • mediamogulM
                                  mediamogul Global Moderator
                                  last edited by

                                  I'm going out for the night, but I do have something to add to this before I leave. I've noticed that one in several instances of launching Basilisk II with an 8-bit color depth leads to a black screen on my setup as well. Once I noticed it, I continued to cycle through launches, trying to estimate how often this happened. While admittedly not scientific, I'd say that I get a black screen about one out of ten or so launches. Could this be the outside script not launching in time on a few occasions? I'm certainly not qualified to say, but I thought it was worth noting.

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                                  • edmaul69E
                                    edmaul69 @mediamogul
                                    last edited by edmaul69

                                    @mediamogul so a couple questions, is dispmanx supposed to be on or off? What are your runcommand options on boot? Are you using a buffer size or a specific display size?

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                                    • mediamogulM
                                      mediamogul Global Moderator @edmaul69
                                      last edited by mediamogul

                                      @edmaul69 said in Macintosh (Basilisk II) 8-bit Color:

                                      is dispmanx supposed to be on or off?

                                      I have mine turned on.

                                      What are your runcommand options on boot? Are you using a buffer size or a specific display size?

                                      Nothing was changed for any of these. Basically, after I got a working disk image on my desktop computer last May, I transferred it and the ROM, as well as the configuration file over to the Pi. It remained that way until I tried changing the color depth a few days ago.

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                                      • edmaul69E
                                        edmaul69 @mediamogul
                                        last edited by

                                        @mediamogul if i turn it on i cant boot in 16+ bit. I will switch to b&w and turn it on then try to switch to 256 color

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                                        • edmaul69E
                                          edmaul69 @mediamogul
                                          last edited by edmaul69

                                          @mediamogul ok so i got it to work. To go back to 32bit do i need to turn dispmanx off again?

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                                          • edmaul69E
                                            edmaul69 @mediamogul
                                            last edited by edmaul69

                                            @mediamogul how do i get out of full screen? Im in doom and i chose to use my mouse. And now i dont know how to get the menu bar back

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